Repsol SA let a $10 million contract to Cie. Generale de Geophysique to acquire 1,000 line km of 2D seismic data on mountainous blocks 34 and 35 in the Ucayali basin (see map, OGJ, July 6, 1998, p. 84). Heliportable equipment will be used.
A hypothetical scenario of petroleum industry activities adjacent to the 1002 Area of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) suggests that development from leases under State of Alaska jurisdiction could drain reservoirs that extend under ANWR.
BGplc plans to restructure in a bid to isolate in law its burgeoning international business from its tightly regulated U.K. gas distribution operation.
Venezuela, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia are protesting allegations levied against them and Iraq that the oil exporters dumped cheap crude oil supplies on the U.S. market, ostensibly resulting in U.S. oil producers being driven out of business.
Ruhr Oel GmbH, a joint venture of Veba Oel AG and Petroleos de Venezuela SA, signed a letter of intent to license Neste Engineering Oy`s Nexethers etherification process for Ruhr`s Gelsen- kirchen, Germany, refinery. Ruhr aims to produce 160,000 tons/year of mixed gasoline ethers beginning in 2001 as part of a program to improve gasoline quality to meet upcoming European Union fuel specifications. Neste Engineering, a unit of Finland`s Fortum Oil & Gas Oy, says the process is cost-effecti
Petrobras de Venezuela SA and Petroleos Brasileiro SA have signed a letter of intent covering the joint development of downstream and upstream energy projects in Venezuela and Brazil.
The St. Johns-Springerville area of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico could prove to be substantial discovery of naturally occuring carbon dioxide.
Unocal Thailand Ltd. is eyeing development plans after the recent completion of appraisal drilling has further confirmed the commerciality of its Parkarang gas filed in the Gulf of Thailand.
Coalgas (U.K.) Ltd., Mansfield, U.K., has begun gas production from two abandoned col mines and plans to bring 40 more small coalbed methane (CBM) projects into operation in the next 5 years.
The Pogo controversy continues to broaden, miring the U.S. Minerals Management Service's effort to promulgate a controversial oil royalty reform regulation.
The royal commission set up to investigate last year's explosion and fire at the Longford gas processing facilities in southeastern Victoria state has laid the bulk of the blame squarely at the door of plant operator Esso Australia Ltd.
In 1996, Petrochemia Plock SA (PPSA) built a new gasoline-blending unit (GBU) in its Poland refining complex to automate and upgrade its gasoline-blending facilities.
The costs of two important chemicals used in crude-oil refining changed very little during the period, 1996-1998, while the costs of three others dropped significantly.
The petrochemical units of BP Amoco plc and Elf Aquitaine Sa have set up two joint ventures in polypropylene, one for manufacturing and marketing in Europe and one for global research and development.
Fiber optics and advanced completion technologies were successfully run in a Wytch Farm extended-reach drilled (ERD) well that is both an oil producer and water injector.
